Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% in Iran's underground Fordo nuclear site, a report seen Tuesday by The Associated Press said.
The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency distributed to member states likely will raise tensions further between Iran and the West over its nuclear program. That's even as Tehran already faces internal unrest after months of protests and Western anger over sending bomb-carrying drones to Russia for its war on Ukraine.
The IAEA report also said that it would "further increase the frequency and intensity of agency verification activities" at Fordo after the discovery. Iran's 2015 nuclear deal limited Tehran's uranium stockpile to 300 kilograms and enrichment to 3.67% -- enough to fuel a nuclear power plant. The U.S.' unilateral withdraw from the accord in 2018 set in motion a series of attacks and escalations by Tehran over its program.
"To the best of our knowledge, we don't believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003," CIA Director Williams Burns told CBS' "Face the Nation" program. "But the other two legs of the stool, meaning enrichment programs, they've obviously advanced very far.
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